On Tue, 30 Nov 2021, Taco Hoekwater via ntg-context wrote:

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> > Another question: what do you mean with a dy-shift version?
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> Nested bars have a parameter ‘dy’ which controls the vertical shifts needed to make sure that they do not overlap. Text backgrounds do not have that option at all.

There are backgroundoffset and frameoffset in framedtext ... not sure if they are inherited in text backgrounds. Or you can defining everything in metapost (but that may lose composability).

https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/125486/323

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